Hillary Clinton spoke to Goldman Sachs for the very simple reason
that she got paid, the former Democratic presidential candidate told an
audience at Recodeâs annual coding conference in Rancho Palos Verdes,
California.

Clinton took the opportunity to blame numerous players for her
election defeat on Nov. 8, and also to justify her use of the term âvast
right-wing conspiracyâ all the way back in 1998. The âconspiracyâ
against her, she suggested, is still alive.

Clinton, speaking to Recode founders Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher,
said she didnât lose because of her own choices or flaws â such as
taking money to speak to big banks, or her odd failure to substantially
campaign in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

âI take responsibility for every decision I made, but thatâs not why I
lost,â said Clinton, blaming Russia, âweaponized information,â the
Supreme Courtâs decision in Citizens United, and many more players.

Clinton blamed propaganda and âcontentâ that was used by President
Donald Trumpâs campaign and allies to influence voters in a covert type
of manner.

Clinton blamed âthe other sideâ for using âcontent farmsâ and fake news to target her.

âHow about lies?â said Mossberg, to applause from the liberal-leaning audience.

While Clinton told Mossberg and Swisher she did not engage in lies
during her campaign, she said Trump's side did. Clinton also raised the
theory that "1,000 Russian agents" were working every day to make sure
that distorted "content" was appearing before internet users. Clinton
did not cite her source for the claim.

Another bizarre claim Clinton made was that Trump advisers Steve
Bannon and Kellyanne Conway were chosen to run the final months of the
Trump campaign because of the urging of Cambridge Analytica, which is
owned by billionaire Rebecca Mercer and family. The Mercers said they
would "wed" their data with the RNC and Trump's data if the hires were
made.

Bannon and Conway did not immediately return a request from LifeZette to respond.

Clinton also blamed the Democratic National Committee for being in
poor shape, after eight years of what should have been salad days for
the party, given former President Barack Obama's tenure.

"I set up my campaign and we have our own data operation," said
Clinton. "I get the nomination. So I'm now the nominee of the Democratic
party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic party. I mean, it was
bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to
poor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it."

Data was on Clinton's mind, quite a bit, and not just because she was
at a coding conference. Clinton laid out a three-part conspiracy in
which weaponized information was coordinated on Facebook and elsewhere.
Clinton came very close to suggesting Cambridge Analytica coordinated
with the Russians.

The three-part conspiracy started, Clinton said, when the Russians
stole information from the Democrats and Clinton's campaign manager,
John Podesta.

The next step was coordination, Clinton said. There was no possible
way, Clinton said, that the Russians would know how to distribute the
information in the most damaging way, without American help. (Clinton
brushed aside the fact that WikiLeaks began leaking the information on
Oct. 7, because she said WikiLeaks is the same thing as the Russian
secret service.)

Clinton said Comey acted upon false Russian information to order the new investigation just before the election.

Clinton said she is "leaning" in the direction to blame Trump for the coordination and the fake news.